How to Learn Spreadsheet Basics with OpenOffice Calc

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The term spreadsheet was derived from a large piece of paper that accountants used for business finances. The accountant would spread information like costs, payments, taxes, income, etc out on a single, big, oversized sheet of paper to get a complete financial overview.

Spreadsheets today have more and more uses. Some examples are:

• Spreadsheets act like a calculator by automatically doing calculations.
• Spreadsheets are used in almost every profession to calculate, graph, analyze, and store information.
• Spreadsheets are used for What-if calculations. Change one number in a spreadsheet and all the calculations in a large spreadsheet will re-calculate, and will automatically change.

With this wiki learn how to use OpenOffice Calc to learn your way around this powerful (and free) software. [1] X Research source